From The Art of War to The War for Talent, strategy has been evolving for centuries. What we have learned in the past 2,500 years …

The Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry appears to suffer least from the current recession. This does not mean everything stays the same however. Consumers are …

There is a lot of good advice and practices out there on change and transformation. Change remains however one of the most challenging aspects of …

Modular Value Chains mean that more specialized value delivery systems can be crafted without running into scale disadvantages. It also means that one-size-fits-all value chains …

Change is often hard work and success is not at all guaranteed. Fortunately help is coming our way. Social media have become much more accepted …

The relationship between Suppliers and Retailers has evolved over time. Now we reached a point where the biggest (implied) supplier is actually a retailer. Needless …

Modular Value Chains means plug ‘n play strategy deployment. This also means that having access to competitive resources becomes more important than owning them. New …

With significantly more modular value chains and plug ‘n play business dynamics, the days of the integrated Strategic Business Unit are numbered. Instead, a more …

Value Chain fragmentation offers new opportunities for making merger integration efforts more effective. Instead of integrating entire companies, it becomes possible to adopt a differentiated …

Corporate governance has been the subject of many and intense discussion in recent years. Spurred by scandals involving companies such as Enron, Ahold, Worldcom and …

Complexity generally has a negative connotation. For some parts of the Value Chain however, complexity represents a true source of value. Better understanding of the …

Fragmentation of Value Chains means hard work for vertically integrated companies as they have to routinely modularize individual parts of the Value Chain. This makes …